7.

Descriptive Continuity Method

 The researcher is knowledgeable about the operation of natural or social

forces which may be obtained by watching them analytically at stated
intervals in their development over a long period of time as seen desirable
and possible. This is also called a genetic method.
8. Descriptive Trend Method

 The descriptive research is based upon a longitudinal consideration of

recorded data, indicating what has been happening in the past, what the
present situation reveals and on the Basis of these data it projects what is
likely to happen in the future.
9. Descriptive Narrative Method.

 Narrative studies are those that tells about the results of the study. There is
no comparative nor correlational analysis made Examples of Narrative
Method: a. Impression of Commerce Students on STD's b. The Use of Virgin
Coconut Oil in the cure of Cancer This type of study, without the use of
statistics, belongs to the ethnographic method of research.
10. Descriptive Ex-post Factor

 This type of descriptive research is also known as cause-comparative

research or after-the-fact research. In this method, the researcher is trying
to establish a causal effect between existing conditions.
 A major concern of this method is that the casual effect should be one way.
The distinguishing variables must precede and be the cause of such
differences.

11. Descriptive Case Study Method

 A case study is an intensive and descriptive analysis of a single subject. It
examines a social unit as a whole, and the unit may be a single typical
individual, a family, a social group, a social institution, or a community. This
study is undertaken on the premise that someone who is typical (not
unique) of a target population can be located and studied